Better partnerships between universities and schools will be needed to strengthen Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and ensure future teachers stay on the job long-term. According to Australian Catholic University's Dean of Education Professor Mary Ryan, one of the major issues ...
More »Government releases final report on review into initial teacher education
The Federal Government has released the final report from its year-long investigation into improving outcomes for newly graduated teachers, titled Next Steps: Report of the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review. The review, announced by then-Education Minister Alan Tudge in April ...
More »NSWTF releases ‘confidential’ briefing document showing worrying declines in ITE enrolments
The NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF) has released information relating to a “confidential” government briefing document, warning the state could miss out on a further 3,000 teachers if it fails to reverse the 30 per cent decline in the number of ...
More »New report argues initial teacher programs are ‘failing’ prospective maths teachers
A new Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) paper highlights that beginning teachers are not being trained in evidence-based teaching practices for mathematics, despite policymakers’ efforts to improve Australia’s initial teacher education (ITE) and reverse declining international results, particularly in numeracy. ...
More »Paid, online teacher training program aims to stem looming national teacher shortage
Christian Education Ministries (CEM) has formed a new partnership with Alphacrucis College in Sydney to provide the next generation of teachers with paid on-the-job training. The new program, which will begin in January next year, will enable eligible candidates to ...
More »Six years of the LANTITE: Monash expert interrogates its assumptions and suitability as a teaching gatekeeper
Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...
More »‘Giftedness is not elitist’: Celebrating the needs of gifted learners
This week is Gifted Awareness Week Australia, and the Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT) is using it to call for more support for high achieving students. According to the AAEGT, Australia has over 400,000 ...
More »Retrospective application of LANTITE test is unfair and a ‘betrayal’ of students: opinion
According to The Advertiser (30 September 2019), ‘In 2016, the Teachers Registration Board SA cited legal advice that the [LANTITE] tests could not be retrospectively imposed as an extra requirement, so made them mandatory only for students who began their ...
More »Is the LANTITE contributing to the ‘collapse’ of the Australian teaching profession?
When Education Review published an opinion piece by Mihad Ali highlighting her frustration with the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE), it sparked a debate online both on our Twitter and comments page. While many commentators believed that strong literacy ...
More »Joanna Barbousas on the decline in interest in teaching: Podcast
A recent Indeed report concluded that searches for teaching jobs declined in 2019, with some states recording sharp dips. This follows an article in The Conversation last year lamenting the drop in first-preference applications in teaching, as well as a ...
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